Good pharmacovigilance practices

Good pharmacovigilance practices (GVP) are a set of measures drawn up to facilitate the performance of pharmacovigilance in the European Union (EU). GVP apply to marketing-authorisation holders, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and medicines regulatory authorities in EU Member States. They cover medicines authorised centrally via the Agency as well as medicines authorised at national level.

Guideline on GVP

The guideline on GVP is divided into chapters that fall into two categories:

modules covering major pharmacovigilance processes;

product- or population-specific considerations.

Each chapter is developed by a team consisting of experts from EMA and from EU Member States.

Modules covering major pharmacovigilance processes

GVP modules I to XVI cover major pharmacovigilance processes and the development of this set of guidance is concluded. The module numbers XI, XII, XIII and XIV stay void, as their planned topics have been addressed by other guidance documents on the Agency’s website (see 'Related links' box below Final GVP modules table).

Product- or population-specific considerations

The chapters on product- or population-specific considerations are available for vaccines and biological medicinal products. EMA plans two more considerations chapters as follows: